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I am very close to completing a custom theme. I limit the size of the main table (after the heading table) to 780, align=center. Everything stays within boundaries EXCEPT for the story editor. For some reason, when I enter the editor, it stretches way beyond the header width. How do I keep this from happening?

It would be very difficult for anyone to tell you what is wrong with that amount of info. It's like me saying, "I just programmed this application in C. I'm getting a segmentation fault. Can you fix it?"

We have no info. You at least need to let us have access to the source code of the page that is not working.

Not sure how to give you the source, since it is html and all spread around in different files.

I thought this would be a simple and obvious matter of my not typing in a correct setting for a table nesting. So, I was kind of hoping someone would say something like "Be sure your main table has 'setting X' and it should work."

Oh well. I'll just keep at it.

Get a program like agent ransack which will do some really definitive searches on your HD and search within your themes directory for:



You're going to get like 15 hits. Storyeditor and submitstory.thtml I believe are the files I believe you wish to look into. Once you're in, work with the "cols=" values by lowering them.

Good luck!

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Victor B. Gonzalez -
http://aeonserv.com

My. Thanks vbgunz. That is exactly the sort of stuff I was hoping to come across. I'm on my way now.

Thanks again!

Okay! I figured out the problem, but have no solution.

The problem has to do with this variabled called {lang_allowed_html} in storyeditor.thtml. It displays in red on the storyeditor form. This variable ostensibly takes its contents from $_CONF['adminhtml'].

The problem is, it will not wrap if it encounters a table limit. It just pushes right thru! When I remove the variable from storyeditor.thtml, everything looks nice.

Perhaps I might reduce the font size in style.css. ANY better idea?

Thanks in advance.

Wow. I just put a RETURN in config.php to break up the allowed html list and everything looks great!

(I hope there is no problem with this)

This was easier to solve before Geeklog 1.3.8. Currently, the text you're talking about should get wrapped without question unless perhaps you've applied a nowrap value to something?

I am pretty certain someone would be able to help you better apply a manual break into the code if you really need one. I'll look into it. Btw, if you're modifying a theme, which is it so perhaps I can look into it.

Good luck!

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Victor B. Gonzalez -
http://aeonserv.com

I'm modifying the Dirty theme. It is a very complex theme (at least for me). I'm trying to update it for 1.3.9. It has a kind of "help" section in the editor that allows you to add html tags at the click of a button.

I'm also adding some subtle effects in css. In addition, I'm adding some of those "panels" on menu options (the kind that are on blaine's site).

I also note that with this theme the file management plugin and calendar both push the tables off the page . No time to look into it just yet.

I do hope I can pull this off. I initially started to try a plugin. Too much for me. Then I tried a hack. Still too much. Now I'm trying a template. Yikes. It appears it is too much for me also.

I'd like to add at least one thing to the downloads section here. Maybe soon...

Thanks for your considerble help. And by the way. I have learned a lot from your themes. The absolute best around in my opinion.

Thanks for the comment but most of the credit for any of my themes go to the creator of XSilver. I do not bother to create themes from scratch so instead I take what works and simply modify it to my taste.

I've downloaded the dirty theme but haven't really messed with it. I did check the thtml files in question but it seems I have a lot to investigate. I do not think I will mess with it any further. Did you solve the problem or are you willing to release a test version to me so I can see where you are at the moment?

Anyhow, I hope you solve it as it feels so good to solve something into a really nice theme. Good luck!

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Victor B. Gonzalez -
http://aeonserv.com

I did solve the problem, but after taking a look at XSilver's structure, I see that my theme is really quite an ugly mess (I'm terribly embarrassed).

I notice that the forum stays nice and tight within XSilver. It breaks my theme.

I'm going to start over and try to make this the cleanest, most stable theme I can.

Thanks!